"This site was created in 2003 and currently lists 1388 different plant species (currently the site does not include grasses, sedges, rushes or ferns)."
This site is a real peach!
How many of us have walked along the banks of a stream or through a little woodland and stumbled upon a flower or bush that we have not been able to identify?
Taking a photograph and then spending hours goooogling for answers as to which plant it may be?
Bookmark the site of British Wild Flowers because a group of enthusiastic photographers led by John Somerville have painstakingly collated and photographed 1388 native wild plants of Britain and Ireland with the ambition to raise this number to 1500.
But John needs some help and invites you to send in examples for inclusion into the British Wild Flower Archive.
I think the web, as it continues to evolve as a resource, that gardeners & photographers can be one of the greatest beneficiaries and archiving and sharing of quality images and information can only improve.
I love the concept of the site but what do you do if you have a photo but have absolutely no idea what to look for. Do you seacrh all of the plants until you see a similar looking plant?
What would be nice is a reverse search facility. Just like complete Gardens or Shoot do for their database search engines. For example, if I found Wild Basil and wanted to narrow it down.
I could type in: Hoary leaf (hairy) - The search criteria could throw up a narrowed down list that just shows hairy leafed plants. Looking at the picture of the wild Basil the flowers look a little like Antirrhinam (Snap dragon) so the crieria might allow search terms such as Antirrhinam like!
If John could add tags when he adds a new plant just like we do with Technorati for example this would make filtering a doddle.
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